# FreeSWITCH – A new revolution in VoIP? — Liran Tal

Next incumbent to Asterisk? I’ve stumbled upon FreeSWITCH

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I’ve stumbled upon the word FreeSWITCH during a research I was conducting the last few days and as it turns out, FreeSWITCH is a soft-switch application designed with modularity in mind. It can act as a full-blown PBX or regular soft-switch for routing actions. It integrates with Jabber (googletalk), SIP, H323, IAX naturally. Seems like it is still in early development but looks like a promising new voip application never-the-less.

[http://www.freeswitch.org](http://www.freeswitch.org)

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